Word: cubic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What's in a goal - post besides splinters? The alcoholic warriors who stormed the end zones Saturday afternoon were no sordid materialists interested in amassing odd cubic feet of painted woodwork. It was the story of the Grail all over again, and the strength of each embattled defender was the strength of ten because, like Tennyson's Galahad, his heart was pure. It was fight for honor--not exactly the much-publicized national honor, but something essentially as noble...
...rest -hardware, lighting fixtures, floor covering, wall covering, etc.-the builder buys for himself. All Reynolds equipment is sold through local dealers. The company claims that a Reynolds house, complete with airconditioning, will cost the builder only about 8%, more than a wooden frame house of the same cubic inch content. Chief advantage of the Reynolds plan is that a home builder has the coordinated services of a dozen or more structural experts, does not have to worry whether the right proportion of his building dollar is going to roofing, plumbing, frames, flooring, wall covering or fixtures...
...Most famed white dwarf, of which only three have definitely been spotted, is the companion of Sirius whose density is approximately half a ton to the cubic inch. *World telescope ranking: Observatory Diameter of Reflector Mt. Wilson........ 100 in. Dunlap (Toronto).....................................74 in. Dominion ...........................................72 in. Perkins (Delaware, Ohio).......................... 69 in. Harvard .....................................................61 in. Argentine National (Cordoba).........................60 in. Harvard (South Africa) ....................................60 in. Berlin-Babelsburg ........................................48½in. Melbourne..................................................... 48 in. †One light-year=approximately six trillion miles. Traveling 186,000 miles per second, light takes only eight minutes to reach Earth from...
...silt from the hills, and sheds and hovels were built on top of it. Now Fascist Italy, recalling the bellicose glories of her antiquity, has decided to lay bare the Circus. The sheds, hovels and a gas works have been razed, and removal has started of 800,000 cubic yards of sediment, all by hand labor. When the clearing is finished a great pageant of manly sport will be held in the arena, no doubt under the Caesarean eye of Benito Mussolini...
...technique now developed by Mr. Greninger, all problems involving cubic crystals may be solved with only one photograph, which can be taken in two or three hours and interpreted in a few minutes. The new method has its greatest usefulness in the study of materials which are opaque to X-rays, as are most metallic crystals. In most of these crystals the plane surfaces of the atoms lying in regular pattern diffract the X-rays within a relatively thin surface layer of the crystal. The method invented by Mr. Greninger is a variation of the method devised by Max Laue...